Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

A little over a week ago, NVIDIA finally expanded their support of mobile chipsets with ForceWare drivers. Previously, only a couple of graphics cards in NVIDIA-powered laptops could use NVIDIA’s stock driver.
Sure, there has always been laptopvideo2go.com (which hacks the desktop ForceWare drivers to work on laptops), but this has at times caused problems… and [...]

Gotta point the finger of blame at The Unofficial Apple Weblog from dropping this link on my desk.
Basically, there’s a grass roots effort to erase all applause from the final Apple-hosted Macworld Expo keynote, in protest of the lineup changes, and the outright abandonment of the show from Apple.
Sound off in the comments. Are you [...]

I’m writing this post so that people will not immediately jump to the typical Apple CEO Healthwatch, as the media will immediately fixate and drool on.
As I’ve written on this blog many times, Macworld’s decay has stemmed from one key thing: Apple and IDG World Expo just do not get along. They haven’t gotten along [...]

I’m really surprised at how many sites are “breaking” the rumor that there will be a new Mac mini at Macworld Expo. I was telling people at public meetings weeks ago that it was a lock for Macworld… and I’ve been talking about the new mini since the MacBook went GeForce 9400M.
The Mac mini has [...]

I don’t like when companies over generalize. So, when iD CEO Todd Hollenshead made the following remarks, I got a little ticked. Basically, iD is asserting that Quake ports to iPhone must be sanctioned by iD, in order to be released:
“Hollenshead informed us that ZodTTD’s port would be illegal and not sanctioned by the company [...]

Apple’s Support Downloads area has been completely redesigned. It now features an updated Web 2.0 look, consistent with product-page changes on apple.com in recent months.
My favorite feature is the ability to now browse by product. You can quickly, say, drill down to iWork ‘08 updates only. I haven’t checked how far back it goes. My [...]

With the latest iPhone update, I’ve found myself doing something I didn’t do before… listening to podcasts.
Like many, I just didn’t see the need for them. If I want to watch a video, I’ll search for it on the web, download it… and usually watch it in higher quality than via a podcast. I don’t [...]

Perian is a popular QuickTime Component, which adds several formats to QuickTime. This allows you to play everything from Divx to Flash Video inside of QuickTime, all with one simple tool. It’s great, and I wish Apple would incorporate as much of Perian as possible into QuickTime.
However, there is one problem. Perian replaces Apple’s H.264 [...]

If you own a MacBook Pro (Early 2008), the model that was just discontinued, it looks like you’ve got a bit of a reason to be ticked off. See, Apple never enabled the older MacBook Pro’s onboard H.264 decoding abilities. That means when you watch an H.264 movie, your CPU spikes to (or near) the [...]

That’s right. Even if you use Boot Camp, you’re stuck at Bluetooth 2.0 on your Windows-powered MacBook. I didn’t realize this until I considered getting one of those nifty MacBook Air units now that they have reasonably good graphics.
Not that this would really tip my decision either way… but Microsoft added support for Bluetooth 2.1 [...]